Quotes about book
book ice sea
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. Franz Kafka
book sea library
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
book keys castles
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
book writing thinking
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
book health narcotics
Books are a narcotic.
book reading thinking
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
book inspire trying
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. Erica Jong
book believe lasts
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
book self censorship
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
book home
Home is where your books are.
book waiting shelves
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
book reading boxes
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
book writing hands
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
book writing men
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.
book hands people
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
book writing thinking
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
book men hoe
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. Eric Burns
book important firsts
Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book Eric Carle
book thinking wind
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20
book giving honor
It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments. Enrique Vila-Matas
book hollies copies
HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it. Eoin Colfer
book haste-makes-waste judging
Don't judge a book by its cover George Eliot
book writing giving
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
book two democracy
There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential. Geoffrey Nunberg
book games noon
And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion. Geoffrey Chaucer
book men years
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
book hem march
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
book thoughtful library
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged. Gary Paulsen
book normal safe
Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
book kids writing
Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
book
A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
book light smell
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.
book reading
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.